Questioning Performance Measurement: Metrics, Organizations and Power is the first book to interrogate the organizational turn towards performance metrics critically. Performance measurement is used to evaluate a diverse range of activities throughout the private, public and non-governmental sectors. But in an increasingly data driven world, what does it really mean to measure 'performance'?.
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Recent work has acknowledged the variegated forms neoliberalism takes in different contexts while recognizing the elements that connect them. Neoliberalization has proven a flexible, adaptive and renewable pattern of reform. At the same time, there is increasing evidence for Harvey's contention that its principal socio-economic outcome is inequality. Accordingly, this article proposes that contextualized understandings of neoliberal formations may shed some light on how inegalitarian upwards redistribution has come to pass. It focuses on the Australian government of John Howard (1996–2007), arguing that its fiscal policies created an 'investor state' – a uniquely generous and expensive system of tax cuts and state subsidy for investors and consumers of private welfare services. This fulfilled the general neoliberal imperative to boost markets in a locally adapted way that built on the market liberalization of the previous Hawke and Keating governments. Importantly, however, it also altered the generous welfare system they had established, redirecting state support away from those most in need towards those with capital.
Editors' introduction : religion as living culture / Michael Bailey and Guy Redden -- Pt. I. New media religion. Transformations in British religious broadcasting / Stephen Hunt -- Alternative Islamic voices on the internet / Aini Linjakumpu -- Mediatizing faith : digital storytelling on the unspoken / Knut Lundby -- Haredim and the internet : a hate-love affair / Yoel Cohen -- Pt. II. Consumption and lifestyle. Fixing the self : alternative therapies and spiritual logics / Ruth Barcan and Jay Johnston -- Religious media events and branding religion / Veronika Krönert and Andreas Hepp -- The after-life of born-again beauty queens / Karen W. Tice -- How congregations are becoming customers / Rob Warner -- US evangelicals and the redefinition of worship music / Anna E. Nekola -- Pt. III. Youth. The making of Muslim youth cultures in Europe / Thijl Sunier -- Religious experience of a young megachurch congregation in Singapore / Joy Kooi-Chin Tong -- Pt. IV. Politics and community. Recent literacy representations of British Muslims / Claire Chambers -- Destiny, the exclusive brethren and mediated politics in New Zealand / Ann Hardy -- Social security with a Christian twist in John Howard's Australia / Holly Randell-Moon -- Mediated spaces of religious community in Manila, Philippines / Katharine L. Wiegele
Abstract MasterChef Australia is the most popular television series in Australian history. It gives a wide range of ordinary people the chance to show they can master culinary arts to a professional standard. Through content and textual analysis of seven seasons of the show this article examines gendered patterns in its representation of participants and culinary professionals. Women are often depicted as home cooks by inclination while the figure of the professional chef remains almost exclusively male. Despite its rhetoric of inclusivity, MCA does little to challenge norms of the professional gastronomic field that have devalued women's cooking while valorising "hard" masculinized culinary cultures led by men.
